The Saddn Desalination Plant

The SADDN Desalination Plant, situated in the Tocopilla region of northern Chile, is set to support the country’s national mining industry strategy to reduce water consumption from conventional inland sources by 60% by the year 2030. With a design capacity of 840 liters per second (roughly 73,000 m3/day) , this state-of-the-art desalination facility will play a pivotal role in achieving this ambitious goal.

The project, a collaborative effort between Marubeni and Transelec, encompasses the intake and outfall systems of the desalination plant, a 160-kilometer pipeline, and three pumping stations designed to transport desalinated water to an elevation of approximately 3,000 meters above sea level. This represents the initial phase of a larger desalination facility that is poised to attain a design capacity of 1,956 liters per second (equivalent to around 170,000 cubic meters per day) in the future.

IDE’s cutting-edge and forward-thinking design for the SADDN desalination plant places a strong emphasis on sustainability, social responsibility, and environmental integrity.

“We chose IDE to be our technology partner due to their expertise in this space and it was clear they could support Techint E&C and the project stakeholders with the common goal of reducing water consumption from traditional sources with their industry-leading technology” 

Marco Matranga, Project Director, Techint E&C